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KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL. 



Out of every 1000 persons — 



Reach 70 years of age. Die before 5. 



In London Ill 408 



Birmingham ... 88 482 



Leeds 79 480 



Manchester ... 60 500 



Liverpool .. 54 528 



The two latter towns, it will be observed, 

 are the worst. In Manchester, great num- 

 bers of children die from the use of opiates ; 

 not a few from the temptation held out by 

 burial clubs. In Liverpool, mortality among 

 the poor is frightfully accelerated by their 

 living in cellars, of which there are 6,294, 

 inhabited by 20,168 persons; 5,273 with- 

 out windows, 1,202 below the level of the 

 street. 



At thirty years of age, 

 The Rural Laborer might expect \,r more 



to live j years. 



The artisan 40 ,, 



Members of Friendly Societies. . 36 „ 



Professional Men 33 „ 



Gentry ,. 31 „ 



Members of the Peerage 30 „ 



Sheffield Fork- Grinders 7 „ 



The first class, however poor, hard-worked, 

 ill-fed, and rheumatic, have the great ad- 

 vantage of a pure atmosphere, and healthful 

 exercise ; the second are usually comfortably 

 married men ; the third picked men, of sound 

 constitutions and careful habits ; of the fourth, 

 lawyers live longest, clergymen next, and 

 medical men least ; the gentry and peerage, 

 having little to do, waste away ; and the 

 poor grinder, if even he reach thirty, can 

 hardly expect to live to forty, so deleterious 

 is his occupation. 



LADIES' HAIR. 



"Without freedom of thought, there would be no such 

 thing as wisdom, and without freedom of speech, wisdom 

 would be almost a sealed book.— Gordon. 



Taste and judgment are apt to get be- 

 wildered in — hair. What must a young lady 

 do who has a head of it — fiery red? Why, 

 she must take a lesson from the sun behind 

 a cloud. Let her cover it partly with some 

 eclipsing net-work, that subdues the color 

 down to that of the coat of the captain who 

 whirls her in the waltz. 



By such judicious treatment, and by a gown 

 of corresponding and congenial hue, red hair 

 may be tamed down into what, by courtesy, 

 may be called a bright auburn. A fair skin 

 and a sweet smile aid the delusion — if delu- 

 sion it be ; thus Danish locks do execution ; 

 and the " lass wi' the gowden hair " is by 

 many thought the beauty of the night. But 

 whatever be the reigning mode, and however 

 beautiful a fine head of hair may be esteemed, 

 those who are short in stature, or small in 



features, should never indulge in a profuse 

 display of their tresses, if they would in the 

 one case, avoid the appearance of dwarfish- 

 ness and unnatural size of the head ; and, in 

 the other, of making the face seem less than 

 it actually is, and thus causing what is there- 

 by petite to appear insignificant. If the hair 

 be closely dressed by others, those who 

 have round or broad faces should, neverthe- 

 less, continue to wear drooping clusters of 

 curls : and although it be customary to part 

 the hair in the centre, the division should be 

 made on one side if it grow low on the fore- 

 head, and beautifully high on the temples ; 

 but if the hair be too distant from the eye- 

 brows, it should be parted only in the mid- 

 dle, where it is generally lower than at the 

 sides; whatever temptations Fashion may 

 offer to the contrary. 



As it would be in bad taste for a fair 

 young lady, who is rather short in stature, 

 however pretty she may be, if irregular as 

 well as petite in her features, to take for a 

 model, in the arrangement of her hair, a cast 

 of a Greek head ; so also would it, for one 

 whose features are large, to fritter away her 

 hair— which ought to be kept, as much as 

 possible, in masses of large curls, so as to 

 subdue, or at least arrange with her features 

 — into such thin and meagre ringlets as we 

 have seen trickling, " few and far between," 

 down the white brow of a portrait done in 

 the days of our first King Charles. There 

 are but few heads which possess, in a suffi- 

 cient degree, the power to defy the imputa- 

 tion of looking absurd, or inelegant, if the 

 hair be dressed in a style inconsistent with 

 the character of the face, according to those 

 canons of criticism which are founded upon 

 the principles of a sure and correct taste, 

 and established by the opinions of the most 

 renowned painters and sculptors in every 

 highly civilised nation for ages past. 



Young ladies ought never to wear many 

 flowers in their hair, or many leaves, what- 

 ever be the fashion. If a bud, it should just 

 peep out, now and then, while the lovely 

 wearer, with a light laugh, sweetly waves 

 her ringlets to some pleasant whisper ; if a 

 full-blown rose, let it — as ye hope to be 

 happily married— be a white one. York for 

 the hair, Lancaster for the bosom ! 



We are partial to pearls ; they have a very 

 simple, very elegant, very graceful, very in- 

 nocent look ; with a certain pure, pale, 

 poetical, gleam about them, that sets the 

 imagination dimly a- dream of mermaids and 

 sea-nymphs, gliding by moonlight along the 

 yellow sands. Be that as it may, we are 

 partial to pearls, even though they be but 

 paste— provided all the rest of the fair crea- 

 ture's adornments be chaste and cheap, and 

 especially if you know that her parents are 

 not rich, — that she is a nurse to several 



